Thursday, 2 February 2023
Over 120 individual programs plus dozens of programmer libraries and
feature plugins are released simultaneously as part of KDE Gear.
Today they all get new bugfix source releases with updated translations, including:
* dolphin: Don't recurse into symlinks when counting directory contents
(Commit, fixes bug #434125)
* kdeconnect: Fix ssh authentication using pubkey on recent openssh
versions (Commit, fixes bug #443155)
* libkdegames: Fix finding knewstuff themes (Commit, fixes bug #464288)
Announcement: https://kde.org/announcements/gear/22.12.2/
This update fixes a few issues and adds new features:
- There was a discrepancy from the bc standard with regards to the
behavior of the "quit" command. This bc used to quit whenever it
encountered "quit" during parsing, even if it was parsing a full
file. Now, bc only quits when encountering "quit" after it has
executed all executable statements up to that point.
This behavior is slightly different from GNU bc, but users will
only notice the difference if they put "quit" on the same line
as other statements.
- A memory bug was caused by assigning a string to a non-local
variable in a function, then redefining the function with use of
the same non-local variable, which would still refer to a string
in the previous version of the function.
- Another memory bug was caused by passing an array argument to the
asciify() built-in function. In certain cases, that was wrongly
allowed, and the interpreter just assumed everything was correct
and accessed memory. Now that arrays are allowed as arguments (see
below), this is not an issue.
- A missing local in the uint*() family of functions in the extended
math library.
- A failure to clear the tail call list in dc on error.
- A crash when attempting to swap characters in command-line history
when no characters exist.
- SIGWINCH was activated even when history was not.
- If an array element was used as a parameter, and then a later
parameter had the same name as the array whose element was used,
bc would grab the element from the new array parameter, not the
actual element from before the function call.
- A new built-in function is_number() ("u" in dc) returns 1 if the
runtime argument is a number and 0 otherwise.
- A new is_string() built-in function ("t" in dc) returns 1 if the
runtime argument is a string and 0 otherwise.
- The new asciify() built-in function in bc converts a full array
of numbers into a string. This means that character-by-character
printing will not be necessary, and more strings than just
single-character ones will be able to be created.
- Stack traces are now given for runtime errors. In debug mode, the
C source file and line of errors are given as well.
It produced a warning in poudriere:
Warning: math/suitesparse dependency on math/suitesparse-camd has wrong PKGNAME of 'suitesparse-btf' but should be 'suitesparse-camd'
PR: 269068
Reported by: peter.larsen (at) larsendata.dk
